Concert Tickets
My first experience dealing with concert
ticket brokers was
actually my first experience with a concert, too. It
was actually not a bad
experience, as far as experiences with ticket brokers
go. It was just that I
had never really dealt with buying concert tickets
before so not knowing the
logic of the web site I was using, it made things a little bit
confusing. But I
was buying tickets with a friend who had done it many times before, and
she
showed me the ropes.
I didn’t go to concerts until the tail end of high school. Most kids start going in middle school or junior high, as far as I know – my friends talk about how they used to be “so into” those silly poppy bands like Hansen and ’NSync and the Backstreet Boys, and of course the Spice Girls. Guaranteed, one of those is always the first concert they ever went to. Not that my first concert wasn’t a stereotypical one to go to, as well: it was (give you three guesses) Dave Matthews Band. And before you jump down my throat, calm down, I wasn’t even a DMB fan at the time. My friends asked me if I wanted to go to this concert with them and I said sure, but I had never heard of the band before or heard any of their songs. I tried to get the latest DMB album from a music store, but I went to a used place because I didn’t have lots of money to spend (having spent plenty already on the tickets) and so what I got was not their latest at all – and, as I later came to realize, it was also one of their worst. So I listened to it, and I thought it was kind of terrible. Well, at least I would be with my friends, I thought, and that would make it okay.
Of course, my expectations were totally reversed, and that concert started my years-long love affair with the Dave Matthews Band. It has since cooled considerably, almost to nothing, and the feeling I get from hearing a DMB song is more nostalgia than anything else. But that first concert – outside, feeling the sunset around us as the band played on and on – was something magical.
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